DATMO Round 3 pairing and update

IM Mas Hafizulhelmi defeated last year’s defending super GM Dao Thien Hai in Round 2.

Here is the pairing for Round 3. Round 3 will start at 9 am tomorrow. The 4th round starts at 3pm.

Round 3 

Bo.     Name                  Pts-Pts     Name
  1 GM  Chandler, Murray       2 - 2  WGM Li, Ruofan
  2 GM  Nguyen, Anh Dung       2 - 2  IM  Barlo A Nadera
  3 IM  Lane, Gary W.          2 - 2  IM  Oliver Dimakiling
  4 IM  Mas, Hafizulhelmi      2 - 2  IM  Girinath, P.D.S.
  5     Hamed G Nouri          2 - 2      Rolando, Nolte
  6 GM  Zhang, Zhong          1½ - 2  IM  Liew, Chee-Meng-Jimmy
  7 IM  Bancod, Ronald        1½ -1½  GM  Adianto, Utut
  8     Senador, Emmanvel     1½ -1½      Li Chao
  9 GM  Ziaur Rahman          1½ -1½  FM  Mok, Tze-Meng
 10 IM  Wang, Rui             1½ -1½      Rhobel Legaspi
 11 FM  Mehdi Hasan Parag     1½ -1½      Zhou, Weiqi
 12     Hakiki, Kaiser Jenius 1½ -1½      Julio Catalinco C. Sadorra
 13 IM  Richard B Bitoon      1½ -1½  WIM Moylan, Laura
 14 IM  Ginting, Nasib        1½ -1½  WFM Sheerie Joy Lomibao
 15     Wang, Li              1½ -1½      Wan, Yunguo
 16     Bennett, Hilton        1 - 1  GM  Dao, Thien Hai
 17     Irwanto Sadikin        1 - 1      Ismail, Ahmad
 18 IM  Tirto                  1 - 1      Tan, Khai Boon
 19 WGM Zhang, Jilin           1 - 1      Yeap, Eng Cheam
 20     Ruston, Mark R         1 - 1      Shen, Siyuan
 21 FM  Jones, Brian           1 - 1  FM  Lim, Yee-Weng
 22     Khairul, Aman          1 - 1      Abang, Mohd Reduan
 23     Chong, Chor Yuen       1 - 1  FM  Sebastian Simanjuntak
 24 FM  Tindall, Brett         1 - 1      Dotsenko, Viacheslav
 25 FM  Ton That Nhu Tung      1 - 1      Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R
 26     Low, Jun Jian          1 - 1      Wallis, Christopher
 27 FM  Anas Nazreen Bakri     1 - 1      Lim, Kian Hwa
 28     Inoue, Sho             1 - 1      Zakaria, Fairin
 29     Constance, James       1 - 1  WFM Milligan, Helen
 30     Haessler, Carl         1 - 1      Mark Law
 31     Kojima, Shinya         1 - 1      Zhang Jing
 32     Evan Timothy Capel     ½ - ½      Nanjo, Ryosuke
 33     Illingworth, Max       ½ - ½      Elgin Lee Kah Meng
 34     Schon, Eugene          ½ - ½      Edward Lee Kim Han
 35     Spiller, Paul          ½ - ½      Junaid Pamungkas
 36     Justin Tan             ½ - 0      Crowdy, Stephen C
 37     Mohan, Raj             0 - 0      Taminsyah Aston
 38     Ahmad, Morsin          0 - 0      Thong Yung Chen
 39     Fong Wei Chern, Gavin  0 - 0      Viswanath, Sandilya B.
 40     Abang Azman Draup      0 - 0      S., Balendran
 41     Chris Marshall         0 - 0      Lee, T H Bryan
 42     Japeri, Reduan         0 - 0      Christopher Masters
 43     Tan Kok Han            0 - 0      Roland Brockman
        Abang Draup            0 -        Bye              

Today's featured is between Irwanto Sandikin (EL) 2456) WIM Laura Moylan of Australia (ELO 2100). Laura essayed an old fashion Benko gambit and gained the upper hand in the middlegame. Some very interesting exchanges later Laura had a Queen vs Sandikin's 2 Rooks. Check it out:-


[Event "Round 1, Table 11"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2007.08.20"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Irwanto Sadikin"]
[Black "WIM Moylan, Laura"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "2456"]
[BlackElo "2100"]
[PlyCount "124"]
[EventDate "2007.??.??"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. Nf3 g6 5. cxb5 a6 6. bxa6 Bg7 7. Nc3 Bxa6 8. e4 Bxf1 9. Kxf1 d6 10. g3 Nbd7 11. Kg2 O-O 12. Re1 Ng4 13. h3 Nge5 14. Nxe5 Nxe5 15. f4 Nd7 16. Bd2 Qb6 17. Qc2 Rfb8 18. Rab1 Qa6 19. b3 Nb6 20. Re2 Ra7 21. Be1 Rba8 22. Kf3 Qc8 23. a4 Qxh3 24. Nb5 Rb7 25. Rh2 Qc8 26. Bc3 Bxc3 27. Qxc3 h5 28. Rbh1 Qg4+ 29. Kf2 Nxa4 30. bxa4 Rxa4 31. Na3 Rab4 32. Rh4 Qd7 33. Nc4 Qa4 34. Rc1 Rb3 35. Qc2 Rb2 36. Nxb2 Qd4+ 37. Kf3 Rxb2 38. Qxb2 Qxb2 39. Rhh1 Qb3+ 40. Kf2 Qd3 41. Rhe1 Qd2+ 42. Kf3 f5 43. exf5 Qxd5+ 44. Kf2 gxf5 45. Rcd1 Qb7 46. Rb1 Qd5 47. Rbd1 Qf7 48. Ra1 Kg7 49. Ra7 Kf6 50. Re2 Qe8 51. Ra6 Qc8 52. Ra7 Qd8 53. Rb2 c4 54. Rbb7 c3 55. Ke2 Qg8 56. Rc7 Qg4+ 57. Kf2 Qd1 58. Rxe7 Qd2+ 59. Kf3 c2 60. Rh7 Qd5+ 61. Ke2 Qd1+ 62. Kf2 Qd4+ 0-1